Devil Dog: Out Of The Dark by Boyd Craven III

Author:Boyd Craven III [Craven III, Boyd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

We were all sitting around the campfire, Mouse half asleep in my lap. It'd been two hours since I'd gotten back into the tunnels and I was telling the less gory details to the assembled group of kids. Many of them smiled, a couple cheered, but when I started pulling out the watches, the earrings, the rings, all of the loot that’d been begotten by pain, everyone fell silent.

"Danielle and Jeremy, this I wanted to leave up to you guys… The gang members had all of this loot, but I don't think there's gonna be much of a chance of finding who it belongs to. I know that at some point, I'm gonna be leaving the tunnel system to go find my family. You could use this, trade with it topside. Some kind of a stash. I’ll be sure to leave you guys some of the guns and ammunition, too." For a second, they just looked at each other and then they looked at me and I looked at the pile. I’d expected Jeremy to be the one to object, but I' was wrong.

"How many do you think this is?" Danielle asked me.

"I have no way of knowing, kid… too many."

"We have no way of knowing that this even came from victims," Jeremy said. "They could've been going house to house searching through stuff, too. I know before I took up with Dick here, I was doing much of the same. I mean, the people were either dead or gone or headed off to a FEMA camp somewhere."

"You know," Jamie said piping up, "he's got a point there. You don't know where this stuff came from. That might mean the difference of getting enough medication for one of the kids, or food when the trap lines aren’t producing. Or more shells for the guns. I don't think there's a moral high ground here in regards to the loot."

"Do you guys recognize any of this stuff, I mean, is any of it yours from… before?" Mel asked the group.

Danielle used her hands and spread everything out, so that no one single piece was covering another and everyone crowded around and took a quick peek at it. One by one, they shook their heads and walked away, giving room for the other kids to see. Even the little kids, including Mouse, went and looked through everything solemnly.

"I’ve always wanted to get my ears pierced," Mouse said. “Do you think Miss Salina would let me get my ears pierced and I could have a pair of earrings?"

“I don’t know, sweetie,” I told her, picking her up, “but right now, you don’t need a hole in your head,” I told her grinning.

“I don’t have a hole in my head…” she said feeling all over her scalp.

I smiled.

“Hey, what about the guys you got in the street?” Danielle asked.

I hadn’t thought of that. They had been carrying guns and potential supplies. I had been so keyed up and ready to roll that I’d forgotten about them and whatever it was they’d dropped.

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